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  • Video: Game Development guest lecture of Socialspiel at University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg

    Monday, January 30 2012

    In November Helmut & Wolfgang were giving a guest lecture at the University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg about Game Development. Check out the very interesting lecture below.

  • Tight Lines Fishing voted best Social Game of the Year

    Thursday, December 15 2011

    How awesome is that? Only two weeks after we’ve won the Content Award with our second game Tight Lines Fishing we’ve got another prize! In stiff competition against Wooga’s “Diamond Dash” and Bigpoint’s “Skyrama”, Tight Lines Fishing was voted Social Game of the Year at the German Game Developer Awards held Düsseldorf.

    Our CEO Helmuts reaction after the announcment: “The incredibly positive feedback we’ve received from gaming fans and the press has shown that we have touched a nerve with Tight Lines Fishing. By creating highly-immersive, quality experiences on social platforms around the World, we’re showing the World that Vienna’s game development industry is alive and well, in addition to proving stiff competition to some of the largest social games developers around the World”.

    Product Manager Barbara in the first row (right) on the group picture of all winners!

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  • Tight Lines Fishing wins Content Award category Mingo

    Friday, November 25 2011

    We are very happy and proud to announce that our second game Tight Lines Fishing won the Content Award in the special category “Mingo” for Startups in Vienna.

    Following the Content Award Conference 2011 the award show took place yesterday evening at the Marxpalast in Vienna.

    (c) ZIT Wien © ZIT

    Andreas, Martin, Lukas, Andreas & Barbara attended the gala and received the award on behalf of the whole team. A big thank you to everyone who was involved in the project!

    Check out the pictures of the award show here: http://blog.zit.co.at/?p=1926, our Press Release (in German) and of course don’t forget to play Tight Lines Fishing.

  • Music and Sounds for Tight Lines Fishing

    Thursday, November 17 2011

    This is a guest post from our Audio-Guy Lukas Hasitschka from Sound42 about the creation of the sound for Tight Lines Fishing.

    What I enjoy most about doing game audio is when you completely understand the developers wishes. When Helmut from Socialspiel and me were brainstorming and he told me: “we need fish, countryside and a little urban touch” I felt challenged but I knew what to do. So after composing the melody and fixing the tempo, I decided to let the countryside reflect through “soft-cliché” instruments. Instead of recording harps and banjos, I asked Paul to play it with Ukuleles and Melodicas. We tried out the rhythm with electronic beats and synth-bass, which turned out to be too hard, so I played the drums myself. To mix the Ukulele-Melodica Cocktail with acoustic drums gave the theme its little extra.

    Producing the second track and the sounds was like going on holiday. I took my Sony PCM-D50 and made a trip to Admont in Styria. For the atmo, fishing rods and fish-sound design, the area was perfect. I took my guitar, sat beneath a tree and just played a melody while looking at the wide landscape. It took some hours and I got it. The rest was studio work with Paul, who played it, and me doing percussion.

    Making the audio for Tight Lines Fishing was great, due to very inspiring moments and funny situations with owners of a fishing pond. Helmut Hutterer and the team of Socialspiel made a great social game and gave us the possibility to let it sound great!

  • Helmut & Wolfgang will talk about Game Production & Development

    Tuesday, November 08 2011

    Our CEO and Technical Director were invited to talk about Games Production & Development at FH Hagenberg this week.

    Helmuts talk will be about game production of online games and social games and about changes and trends in the gaming industry during the past 10 years. Wolfgang will talk about game programming for MMOs and backend technology involving security, performance and other important methodologies.

    Check out the Facebook Event here: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=231724736884399

    Hard Facts
    10.11.2011, 6 pm, Audimax

    FH OÖ Studienbetriebs GmbH
    Fakultät für Informatik/Kommunikation/Medien
    Softwarepark 11
    4232 Hagenberg/Austria

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